Like all great poetry, this song is best enjoyed when it is neither commented upon nor Paraphrased, but carefully read and warmly felt.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
This passage, not easily Paraphrased, is a poetic recognition of the latent sympathy of Aristophanes with the good cause.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
I hence fail to see why the Idylls of the King should be alone called poems and not also parts of Malory's Morte d'Arthur, which Tennyson Paraphrased in blank verse.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell